What a week: top stories you may have missed
strap
By Computerworld UK reporters | Published 07:30, 11 August 07
Royal Bank of Scotland and Unilever have both embarked on major IT-driven business process change that promises big cost savings - in Unilever's case the prize is an eye-popping £1bn-a-year off its bottom line by 2010.
And Richard Steel, CIO of London's Olympic borough Newham, has begun blogging for Computerworld UK, spelling out the day-to-day challenges of what is one of the UK public sector's leading IT roles.
Editor's highlights
Three must-read articles on Computerworld UK this week:
NHS planned to take over troubled supplier iSoft
Minister had team ready to ensure delivery of key NHS software
Unilever IT programme drives £1bn-a-year savings
Converged IT enabling 'One Unilever' project
Boots drops IT director role as Rob Fraser quits
Retailer to split functions between lower-level managers
Readers' choice
Dell launches Linux PCs in the UK
New Inspirons will have Factory Installed Ubuntu
Wal-Mart CTO details HP data warehouse move
Twin supplier strategy paying off...
Atos has 'learned lessons' from healthcare unit woes, says analyst
Cancelled contracts prompt rethink
Data sharing efforts should increase, say MPs
Council tax take-up 'could be improved'
Amazon launches Flexible Payments Service
System should smooth money-dealing issues
You said it:
"GPs have had excellent database computers for many years, with much useful coded information on them. Why were these not scaled up to hospitals? For two reasons, I suspect: a) hospital consultants and managers think they are cleverer than GPs - so what is there to learn from primary care? b) computer consultants prefer to start from scratch rather than adapt existing systems. They will always argue the case for the newest technology."
From: NHS planned to take over troubled supplier iSoft
CIO blog
Catch up with the thoughts of Richard Steel, CIO of Newham - a London borough in transition and soon to be home of the 2012 Olympics.
Read it here
Digging deeper: Financial services focus
Turquoise delays launch, denies rift in bank consortium
New pan-European exchange on verge of choosing platform
Productivity improvements on static overheads
Hacking attacks against banks up 81%, says report
Growing number of hackers in China
Lloyds TSB axes 210 UK IT staff
Rest of 3,000 strong department to remain UK-based
Digging deeper: LinuxWorld 2007
LinuxWorld: Amazon chooses IT services over large datacentres
Intelligent resourcing is key
LinuxWorld: Linux code maintainer allays fears about forking
Morton slams Sun for fragmenting non-Windows OS world
LinuxWorld: Open source going mainstream
Adoption choices guided by hard-nosed business
Digging deeper: MoD contracts
MoD begins £80m roll-out of electronic health records for military
Designed for quick access to medical records in the field
MoD first to get cross-government travel booking service
Capgemini wins another government contract
White papers
Make sure you know what your colleagues are reading. Get the most downloaded white papers from ComputerworldUK this week.
Symantec Backup Exec 11d for Windows Desktop and Laptop Option
Laptop durability and security report
Linux performance and tuning guidelines
Web filtering appliances heat up the hardware vs software debate
